The Rules of the Game

 

Year: 1939

Time: 106 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 216

Release Date: Tuesday, 20 January 2004

MSRP: $39.95

 

DVD

2 Discs

1.33:1

French Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region 1/2/3/4/5/6

 

 Introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir   Audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich   Comparison of the film’s two endings   Selected-scene analysis by Renoir historian Chris Faulkner   Excerpts from Jean Renoir le patron: La Règle et l’exception (1966), a French television program by filmmaker Jacques Rivette   Part one of Jean Renoir, a two-part 1993 BBC documentary by film critic David Thompson   Video essay about the film’s production, release, and 1959 reconstruction   Interviews with set designer Max Douy, Renoir’s son, Alain Renoir; and actress Mila Parély   Illustrated study of Renoir's shooting script   Written tributes to the film and Renoir by François Truffaut, Paul Schrader, Bertrand Tavernier, Wim Wenders and others   A 24-page booklet featuring writings by Jean Renoir, François Truffaut, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Tavernier, and an essay by Alexander Sesonske